The Curriculum & Instruction Department of Manor ISD is pleased to announce MPACT. Through MPACT, learners will be inspired to impact our students, exchange ideas with other teacher leaders, administrators, and community partners; and learn ways to engage and motivate our diverse student population. This teaching and learning institute is appropriate for all of us because we are interested in "Impacting Student Achievement Through Engaged, Aligned Classrooms."
We encourage you to arrive early for check in to get your swag bag and to start your day networking with your fellow MISD educators before the sessions begin . Click here to download a pdf version of the full progam for MPACT. It will provide you with tips on how to make the most of your day. Additionally, SCHED Planner is the tool you will use to build your personal itinerary for MPACT. Most sessions are designed for any audience and sessions are faciliated by your peers and some guest speakers. If you are unsure how to register, watch this video.
Star the sessions that you would like to attend. Choose only ONE session per timeslot. It will be important that you bring your technology since we will not have paper copies available and any updates to sessions and session locations will be available on this site only. Remember to bookmark the mobile app or print your schedule before you come. Dress comfortably as there are some sessions that will be very interactive. Finally, check out all of our participating vendors and exhibitors. Stop by their tables to hear and/or see what they have to offer. You never know what types of goodies you will pick up at their tables or what you may win at the end of the day. See you at MPACT!
Take the technology that is a typical distraction for students and put them to educational use.
1. Ideas for iPad use in the classroom
2. A look at assignments created using iPad apps
3. See how easy it is to create templates and assignments for students on iPads.
Participants will engage actively in strategies that link thinking, speaking and writing. Through group and individual activities, participants will learn and create thoughtful, interactive writing activities to jump start the beginning of the year in any content/elective area! Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops.
How do we respond when students don’t master the learning objectives? This session will provide participants a process for planning small group instruction within the Tier 1 lesson cycle. Participants will engage in the process from setting expectations, to data disaggregation and vertical alignment, ending with re-assessing standards. While this session will focus on math content, other content area teachers may attend to engage in the framework that may be applied to all content areas.
This session is open exclusively to teachers who have attended the Think Forward PBL Institute.
Come learn some strategies to teach students how to manage projects. Topics will include scaffolding critical thinking and inquiry, facilitating "Next Steps", and implementing group contracts.
This session will discuss the Curriculum & Instruction Department’s Book Study of Enrique’s Journey by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sonia Nazario. This presentation provides implications for teaching immigrant English language learners (ELLs). The second portion of the presentation will embed interactive, reflective practices in the discussion of a secondary ELL student’s journey in search for his mother.
At the conclusion of this session, participants should have a better understanding of secondary ELL’s and their family struggles, narrative qualitative research, and strategies on how to effectively make a difference in an ELL’s life. Participants will leave the training with a personal copy of Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario purchased by the Bilingual/ESL Department.
Inform - Teachers will be informed of what characteristics and attributes students might possess to constitute a good dyslexia referral for testing.
Review - Teachers will review the dyslexia process of referrals, paperwork, and protocol will be addressed and reviewed in detail.
Apply - Teachers will learn what accommodations and modifications students who qualify for services can utilize in the classroom.
By the end of this session, teachers will understand which students in their classrooms are good candidates for dyslexia testing based on primary and secondary characteristics of dyslexia. Teachers will be aware of what documentation is required before testing and the process of compiling the necessary paperwork for referred students. Teachers will learn to utilize appropriate and necessary accommodations in their classroom in order to positively impact student achievement.
Explore Popplet, Animoto and student-video making (including Blabberize!) to determine their uses for student-created products that indicate learning and mastery of content from literature and curriculum texts.
Develop rubrics as a viable tool to assess both creativity and content of the student-products.
Leave this session with at least three valuable tools to employ immediately in the classroom as well as a 'student - sample' product!